The Politics of Envy by Mark Stewart review

For all his screamed angst and politically subversive sloganeering, Mark Stewart has maintained strong pop sensibilities.

By Jim Pinckney In Music

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23rd March, 2012

He certainly doesn’t make for easy listening and is most likely to be remembered as a divisive vocalist and political firebrand, but Mark Stewart can certainly assemble a phenomenal guest list. Among the contributors to The Politics of Envy, his sixth solo album since the dissolution of the Pop Group in 1981, are a host of seminal punk and postpunk figures, including PiL’s Keith Levene, the Raincoats’ Gina Birch, the Slits’ Tessa Pollitt, Der Plan, Richard Hell and all of Primal Scream. They are joined by fellow Bristolians Daddy G of Massive Attack and Khan, as well as veteran ...

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